Monday, March 8, 2010

Who would have thought that this old $1 Longaberger Basket sign could look so cool? Even though I quickly grabbed it up from the thrift store, I had no idea that it had so much potential.

Whoever had painted it the first time around used some sort of crackle medium, because when I tried to paint over it, my paint became really transparent and slimy. I painted 3 coats of white to try to cover up the dark red and blue paint, and ended up with a relatively blank slate to do some stenciling. You could still see a little of the crackling, but it wasn’t nearly as big or obvious as it had been on the sign originally.

I printed off some different fonts and experimented with sizes up against the wood. Once I found one I liked, I sprayed it with a tacky stencil spray so that it would stick to the wood.

I then traced the outline of the letters on the back of the paper in pencil, stuck the paper where I wanted it to be on the sign, and scribbled over the front of the paper so that the letter outlines were lightly rubbed onto the sign.

I peeled the paper off and filled the letters in with a black acrylic paint. I then lightly sanded over the letters in the direction of the wood grain with a coarse sand paper. I stained the wood trim a dark oak color, and then painted over the letters and the white with an antique glaze, and quickly wiped it off. This is what I ended up with.

The initial crackling came through beautifully once the wood was sanded a little bit, and the glaze filled the cracks in just enough to give it a perfect aged look. I even ended up with several large cracks through the letters, like this one through the E and L that I love.

I started off with an old looking sign, and ended up with a sign that is old looking, but in a good way!

Very clever! It looks great! I have a wood tray very similar {it came with Chocolates at the day job for Valentine's Day and I grabbed it!}. I never thought to make a sign with it though. Definitely, something to consider!

i love this -- i just bought a long wooden sign like this from tjmaxx for a dollar and it says homemade cinnamon buns -- really? who is going to put THAT in their kitchen? who makes those anymore? so it's on the project list!

This is fantastic. I love everything about it and would totally hang this in my home. I swear I have something like the "before" lounging around in my basement, now I know what I could do with it! Thanks for sharing, this is my first visit to your awesome blog, found you from Somewhat Simple's link party. Have a great weekend!

Hey Erin, this looks really great! I am planning on featuring this on my blog, I have been looking for a way to contact you and haven't found one. Anyway, since you linked it up to the party(and it says in the party post that I may feature your projects), I guess I will take that as the okay to feature it? Hope so!

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